They Were Taken Aback By What The Water Revealed While Draining The 200-Year-Old Parisian Canal

Published on 03/31/2021
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An Important Source Of Water

the canal is 4.5 km long. The building was completed after Napoleon Bonaparte I agreed to fund it. This was constructed to provide potable water for the 550,000 Paris residents. Nonetheless, he predicted that the population would increase in the future.

An Important Source Of Water

An Important Source Of Water

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A Lot More To It Than That

He hoped that access to clean water would help control the city’s health problems. Several cases of cholera and dysentery had been previously reported. The Canal Saint-Martin is almost three miles long. Also, it distributed food and building supplies to all Parisians.

A Lot More To It Than That

A Lot More To It Than That

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